Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting TragedyBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 353 páginas Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master. |
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... hands . One survivor from this lost world , Budge Frost of Tollesbury , has re- dressed the balance by telling me that in his experience all his yachting employers appeared to be more or less insane . In addition to crews , large ...
... hands away . Until the setting of the sun Did foaming billows rise . The waves did lift their lofty heads , To meet the lowering skies . Then thro ' the dark and hazy night Fresh sorrows did revive , To save us from a watery grave ...
... hands on board besides our captain too , The first 10 days we sailed the sea right fair the wind it blew On the third day of December a storm began to rise , The welling seas tossed mountains high & dismal was the skies It was some ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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